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C. E. nURK, 
Compiler. 

Third Edition. 




THE MCKINLEY MONUMENT 




BUFFALO 

TO-DAY 

INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 



THE 36TH ANNUAL 

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES 

AND CORRECTION 

WILL BE HELD AT BUFFALO, N. Y. 

JUNE 9-16, 1909 



FOR FULL INFORMATION 

REGARDING THE CONFERENCE, WRITE TO SECRETARY 

LOCAL COMMITTEE, 211 ELLICOTT SQUARE 

BUFFALO, N. Y. 

Published Under the Auspices of the Publicity Committee 
National Conference of Charities and Correction 



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THE FACTORY TO FAMILY WORKS OF THE LARKIN CO. OYER FORTY 
THOUSAND VISITORS ANNUALLY. 

The world's largest manufactory of Soaps, Perfumes, Toilet Preparations, and important Pure Food Specialties. 
The entire Product of the Larkin Factories is sold direct to consumers. 




BUFFALO FACTORY OF PRATT & LAMBERT, VARNISH MAKERS. 
Other factories : New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Hamburg, 



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Compiler's Preface. 



HAKBOK \IE\\. 



THIS is the third edition of "Buffalo of To-day." It is a special edition, issued under the 
auspices of the local publicity committee for The National Conference of Charities and Cor- 
rection, which holds its large annual meeting in Buffalo, 1909. The object is to acquaint pros- 
pective visitors and others with the commercial and domestic attractions of Buffalo, and the 
immense future possibilities for the city. Mention is made of a few large plants which have 
recently located here, and also the old Buffalo plants, which, owing to increase in business, 
have required large additional buildings; all of which show the solid, rapid growth of Buffalo. 
A perusal of the illustrations will show her splendid hotels, stores, and public buildings, as well 
as her broad residence avenues and parks. 

The Otis Elevator Company, occupying thirty-five acres of ground, employs upwards of 
5,000 men. The New York State Steel Co., which, when completed, will occupy sixty acres, 
cost in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. The American plant of the L. M. Ericsson Telephone 
Manufacturing Co. The Wickwire Steel Co., with its two large blast-furnaces, and accom- 
panying power and ore-handling equipment. The new Geo. N. Pierce Company (automobiles), 
occupying fifteen acres. A one-third addition to the now large plant of the E. R. Thomas 
Motor Co.; a similar addition to the Pratt & Letch worth Company. Additions to the Republic 
Metalvvare Co., Farrar and Trefts, the Cooperative Stove Company, the Cutler Desk Co., the 
Wood and Brooks Company, the Clawson and Wilson Company, the Chase and Baker Com- 
pany, the F. N. Burt factories, the Cahoon-Lyon Drug Company. Two twelve-story office 
buildings, the Chamber of Commerce, and White Building. The fourteen-story Hotel Statler. 
The Bickford and Francis Company's building, the large warehouse of Weed & Company. 
The Shea Theater. The T. and E. Dickinson & Company's building, and many others which space 
forbids mentioning. The employment of such a largely increased amount of labor as is conse- 
quent upon these plants necessarily calls for a proportionate increase in the number of homes, 
stores, and other factories. 



WHY is this book published ? 
Merely to illustrate a portion of the industrial progress of Buffalo towards her 
inevitable destiny in the manufacturing world. Three iinmense, irresistible 
agencies are constantly operating to make this city the center of the greatest 
producing zone of the United States. Daniel Webster saw this in 1844, when, in a speech 
at Rochester, he said : 

" If the Thames had a fall of 250 feet within the limits of London, London would not 
be a town, it would be the whole world." 

The editor of the New York Times saw this when he wrote : 

" Buffalo must inevitably become the greatest milling and manufacturing city on 
earth." 

The Hon. Albert T. Shaw, when Consul to England, speaking of the English people, 
wrote to the United States Government in his report: 




SCENE IN Bill \L() 11 \RBOR. 

"They [the English manufacturing experts] are of the opinion, as everybody else is 
who has made a study of the matter, that the great manufacturing city of the future is to 

be located on the banks of the Niagara River." 
George Westinghouse, who is now consid- 
ering the building of an immense plant on the 
banks of the Niagara, as far back as December 
22, 1894, predicted the development which is 
now in evidence, and, on the occasion of his 
recent visit to Butialo, he said : 

" Your locality possesses all the advantages 
of transportation facilities, and is most advan- 
tageously located as an assembling and distrib- 
uting point for the whole country. From what 
I know of electricity and of its possibilities 
when generated by water power I expect to see 
a city extend along the entire Niagara Frontier 
which will astonish the world." 

Apart from human energy and local enter- 
prise, what are the three great agencies which 
are constantly advancing Buffalo as a manufac- 
turing center ? 

(i.) Natural convenience of location. 

(2.) Unsurpassed transportation facilities 
by rail, canal, and lake for the assembling of 
raw material and the distribution of manufac- 
tured products. 

(3.) Unlimited hydraulic-electric power. 




OFFICE BU1LU1.\(, Ol' 
TELEPHONE CO., OF 



THE BELL 
BUFF.\LO. 




lU'hl'AU) & SUSQUEHANNA IKUN ( iiMFANV. 
Manufacturers of Susquehanna Pig Iron. 




PLANT OF THE SNOW STEAM PUMP WORKS AND THE HOLLY MANUFACTURING CO. 
Manufacturers of Pumping Machinery for all services, and of Gas Engines from loo H. P. to 5,000 H. P. each. 




ELEVATOR OF THE SPENCER KELLOGG COMPANY. 
Manufacturers and Refiners of Linseed Oil. Daily capacity, 1,200 barrels. 



What have these powers accomplished for 
Buffalo ? 

Since 1890 they have brought 412 new manufac- 
turing enterprises to Buffalo. Of this number 305 
are concerns attracted here by the superior advan- 
tages of location. The remainder were financed 
entirely by home capital or were old home enter- 
prises enlarged and expanded. Included in the 
newly-located concerns is the plant of the Lacka- 
wanna Iron & Steel Company, capitalized at $60,- 
000,000, now employing 6,000 men, and undergoing 
constant enlargement. When completed 12,000 
men will be employed in these works alone. Ad- 
joining this is the plant of the Buffalo & Susque- 
hanna Iron Company, yet incompleted, employing 
1,000 men. When finished it will require 3,000 
men to operate these furnaces. The Snow Steam 
Pump Company has added more than 1,000 men 
to its pay-rolls during the past two years. The 
numerous, immense iron-producing and iron-work- 




Grecn & Wicks. Architects. 

MARINE N.\TIONAL BANK. 

Capital, Surplus, and Profits, S2,839,578.4i- 
Deposits, S20,92S, 151.62. 




MAIN STREET FROM 
SHELTON SQUARE 

ing plants which extend along the 
navigable waters of Buffalo have, 
in almost every instance, doubled 
and trebled their pay-rolfs since 
1900. 

What is the direct cause for 
the tremendous expansion in the 
iron and steel industry in Buffalo 
and the reason for its rapid strides 
towards supremacy in these lines 
when it was always believed that 
the Pittsburg district would main- 
tain its lead in these departments? 

Mr. Elisha Walker, the great 
international expert in iron and 
steel manufacture, was asked this 




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Telegraph Co. 




HI II MO J'lTTb CUMPAW. 
Manufacturers of Traction Engines and Threshing Machines. 



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ADAM, MELDRUM & ANDERSON COMPANY. 
Department Store. 



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Green .V Wi^ks, Architects. 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS 
NATIONAL BANK.. 

(Organized 1856.) 
Capital, $1,000,000.00. 
Surplus, $1,000,000.00. 



LAFAYETTE SQUARE AND BRISBANE BLDG. 
Containing S. H. Kno.x & Co.'s Store. 

same question by Wall Street, generally, Fisk & 
Robinson, brokers, in particular. After a year's 
investigation Mr. Walker definitely concluded that 
Bufi[alo has distinct advantages as an iron manu- 
facturing center. 





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THE PEOPLES BANK OF BUFFALO. 

Capital, Surplus, and Undivided Protits, S575.ooo-oo- 
Deposits, $4,500,000.00. 



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THIKI) NATIONAL BANK. 

Capital, S500.ooo.oo. 

Surplus and Profits, $130,000.00. 







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THk hlUhLUV IKUM' CO.'S BUILDING. 



Capital and Surplus, «!445, 500.00. 
Assets over $8,740,000.00.' 




Till'. HI I'l. \l,() I NION 1-L'KNAfK CX).MI'ANV, 
Manufacturers of Coke and Charcoal Pig-iron. 

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Besides the lake and 
canal transportation and 
the unlimited hydraulic- 
electric power from 
Niagara what other in- 
ducements are offered to 
manufacturers by Buffalo? 

Fifteen great trunk 
lines of railway center at 
Buffalo — including the 
New York Central ; the 
Erie; Lehigh Valley; Del- 
aware, Lackawanna & 
Western; Pennsylvania; 
Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern ; New York, 
Chicago & St. Louis; 
Grand Trunk; Canadian 
Pacific; Michigan Cen- 
tral ; Toronto, Hamilton 



THE CITY HALL. 

& Buffalo; Buffalo. Rochester & Pitts- 
burg; Wabash; Rome, Water- 
town & Ogdensburg; West 
Shore ; Pere Marquette, 
and all their various 
branches, providing 253 
passenger trains a day 
and furnishing 663 
miles of railway 
trackage within 
the city limits. 
Thirteen lines of 
steamships ply the 
lakes from Buf- 
falo. Buffalo's 
proximity to the 
great coal fields 
provides her with 
fuel coal for $1.60 
to $2.60 per ton. 
Natural gas for 
manufacturing 
purposes is retailed 




BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY AND SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. 




it zy%. cents per thousand cubic feet. The 

City of Buffalo enjoys a pure and absolutely 

unlimited supply of water from Lake Erie, 

which is delivered to manufacturers at 

two cents per thousand gallons, the 

cheapest water in the world. The per 

capita consumption in 1904 being 333 

gallons. 

In regard to power? 



BANK OF BUFF.ALO 



& Wicks, Architects. 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING. 

Containing the Columbia National Banic of Buffalo. 
Capital, 3700,000.00. 
Resources. $8,869,000.00. 



ERIE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK. 

Amount due Depositors, 841,645,273.82. 
Surplus, 53,789,396.14. 



COMMONWEALTH TRUST COMPANY. 

Capital and Surplus, $1,000,000.00. 
Total Resources, $7,470,000.00. 




\VM. H. WALKER & CO. 
Wholesale Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. 

The present Erie 
Canal has a depth of 
from sev^en to nine feet 
and a width on the bot- 
tom of fifty-two and a 
half feet. The specifica- 
tions for the new canal 
will provide a uniform 
depth of twelve feet, with 
a minimum bottom of 
seventy-five feet, making 
the new canal capable of 
carrying boats 150 feet 
long, twenty-five feet 
beam, with a draft of ten 
feet. The present capac- 
ity of an Erie Canal boat 
is 240 tons. The capac- 
ity of the boats on the 



Buffalo being one of the most cosmopoli- 
tan cities in the United States, it abounds in 
diversified classes. Living is most economical 
on account of the city's proximity to the great 
gardens of Western New York, and from its 
population of 400,000 Buffalo can furnish skilled 
or unskilled labor in any quantity at most 
reasonable prices. 

THE NEW ERIE CANAL. 
The stupendous task of digging the new 
Erie Canal for which the people of the State 
of New York voted $101,000,000, which will 
connect Buffalo with tidewater by a 1,000 ton 
barge waterway, is now in hand. This new 
canal will cost more than the great Suez Canal, 
while its tonnage will annually exceed that of 
Suez. It is a greater public improvement for 
~-f\^ the State of New York to carry out than is the 
building of the Panama Canal for the United 
States Government. 








17 THE WM. HENGEKER COMPANY. 
Department Store. 



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CLAWSON & WILSON CUMPANY. 
Wholesale Dry Goods. 




J. N. ADAM & CUMPANY. 
Department Store. 

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Green & Wicks, Architects. 



new canal will be 1,000 tons, four 
times that of the present boats. It 
costs now three and a half cents a 
bushel to send grain from Buffalo to 
New York. The new canal will take 
two and a half cents off this charge, 
making the rate one cent per bushel. 
Whether this means a higher price 
to Western farmers or a lower price 
to Eastern consumers is a matter for 
argument. One thing is certain, it 
will hold railway rates at such an 
equipoise that there will never be 
exactions and the commercial su- 
premacy of Buffalo will be forever 
maintained. Freight of all descrip- 
tions, manufactured products, iron 
and steel, can be transported from 
Buffalo to tidewater for a half of a 

H. A. MELDRUM CO. 
Department Store. 





PLANT OF THE BUFFALO FOUNDRY AND MACHINE COMPANY. 
The largest manufacturers of heavy castin^fs in the United States. 



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mill per ton per mile. In other words, on 
the nevv^ canal all kinds of freight can be 
shipped from Buffalo to New York, 446 
miles, at twenty-six cents per ton. The 
present cost is eighty-seven cents per ton. 
The new canal will reduce all rates more 
than two-thirds. The new canal will carry 
manufactured iron and steel from Buffalo 
to New York and points along the Atlantic 
Coast, without breaking bulk, for twenty- 
six cents a ton. Buffalo can now produce 
iron and steel sixty-five cents a ton less 
than Pittsburg. Buffalo now has an ad- 
vantage over Pittsburg in the cost of ore, 
limestone, and several other matters inci- 
dent to the manufacture of iron and steel. 
Pittsburg's sole remaining advantage being 
its proximity to coking coal. This will be 
utterly obliterated. The vast steel and 
allied industries centering at Pittsburg, 
which support a population greater than 
that of Chicago, will, of their own volition, 
move within the boundaries of the State of 



Lsenwein & Johnson, Architects. 

THE IROQUOIS HOTEL. 

New York and locate along the Niagara 
Frontier. This industrial migration has 
already begun. It will continue naturally, 
ceaselessly. The ore will meet the coke at 
Buffalo. The manufactured product will 
be floated down the Erie Canal instead 
of being hauled across the Alleghanies. 
This is inevitable. 

What has inquiry proved regarding 
Buffalo as an advantageous location for 
manufacturing enterprises .' 

Skilled engineers and experts in manu- 
facture have scanned continents to find 
locations where raw material could be 
bought at the lowest possible cost. When 
the capitalists embarked upon the enterprise 




THE LAFAYETTE HOTEL. 




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of building the greatest, most complete in- 
dividual iron and steel plant in the world 
commissioners were sent broadcast to find 
the most advantageous location. Their 
scrutiny was rigid and complete in the 
North, South, East, and West. In the face 
of tempting bonuses, exemptions, special 
privileges, and many other alluring induce- 
ments the expert commission reported that 
Bufifalo was the best location in the world 
for the manufacture of iron and steel. That 
at this point the raw material could be 
most economically assembled ; the manu- 
facturing process conducted at the least 
cost ; and the final product distributed in 
the most convenient and inexpensive 
manner. Upon this report, confirmed 
and proven, the Lackawanna Steel 
Plant, representing an investment of 
$60,000,000. was built at Buffalo. The 
same investigation with the same results 
marked the location of the great H-O 
mills at Buffalo. In the manufacture of 
steam pumps the same conditions were experienced. At the time the great steam pump 
plants were merged it was found that production at Buffalo was so economical that it 
warranted the closing of 
the other plants and the 
concentration of the en- 
tire works at Buffalo. 
Thereupon the Holly 
Pump Works at Lock- 
port, employing 2,000 
men, were moved bodily 
to Buffalo and linked with 
the Snow Steam Pump 
Company's plant here. 

When the Swedish 
electrical manufacturers, 
who maintain large plants 
at St. Petersburg, Stock- 
holm, and Nottingham, de- 
cided to build a great fac- 
tory in America, Engineer 
Weman was sent to this THE M.ARKEEN. 



THE LENOX HOTEL. 




country to ascertain the most advantageous 
location. As the cost of the buildings re- 
quired a vast outlay of money and the em- 
ployment of an army of men, no time nor 
expense were spared in this investigation. 
As in previous cases, the enterprise was 
coaxed by bonuses, exemptions, free water, 
and all kinds of special privileges. Buffalo 
had no fund to offer inducements of this 
character; but she had inducements of a 
more practical nature. After three years' 
investigation Engineer Weman reported 
that BulTalo was the best place for the loca- 
tion of a factory in all respects. There- 
upon the L. M. Ericsson Telephone Manu- 
facturing Company is building at Buffalo 
the nucleus of its great American plant. 
Building No. i is now completed. The 
plant will include four buildings with a 




Esenwein & Johnson, Architects. 

HOTEL STATLER. 

separate hall devoted to lava- 
tories and wardrobes, mostly in 
marble. 

These instances could be mul- 
tiplied indefinitely by examples. 



BUFFALO AS A HOME, 
CONVENTION, AND SIGHT- 
SEEING CITY. 

Buffalo has long been famed 
as one of the handsomest cities in 
the world. Her avenues, lined by 
magnificent residences, shaded by 
majestic elms, and paved with as- 
phalt are at once the admiration 
and the wonder of all visitors. 
This city enjoys 357 miles of as- 
phalt pavement, more smooth 



THE GENESEE, 




Interior of Power House. 



PLANT OF THE LACK 
Manufacturers of Steel Products. This is one of the laryesi 

and covering a 



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water frontage. 




Bessemer department. 

Gantry Crane lifting' a forty-ton stack. 
A STEEL COMPANY, 
al steel plants in the world, having a capital of S6o, 000,000, 



1,100 acres. 



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I & Wicks, Architects. 



THE MUTUAL LIFE BUILDING. 
Buffalo Agency, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. 



pavement than Paris, 
Washington, or any other 
city in the world. It is 
also the greatest "home 
city" in the world. The 
Island of Manhattan is 
owned by 42,000 individ- 
uals and corporations. 
Out of a population of 
400,000 people in Buf- 
falo the home-owning 
population is only 30,000 
below the total registered 
vote at the last presiden- 
tial election. Buffalo's 
ideal climate, her prox- 
imity to the Cataract of 
Niagara and the wonder- 
ful Gorge, makes her the 
greatest sight-seeing city 
in the country. No dis- 



tinguished visitor 
from abroad would 
think of missing the 
Seventh Wonder of 
the World, or an 
inspection of the 
great Gorge where 
the history of the 
world, from the 
time it " was with- 
out form and void," 
is written. Not 
only is the record 
of the ages set down 
for the geologists 
in the Gorge , of 
the Niagara but 
the history of three 
great nations is 
written in this won- 
derful neighbor- 
hood. From Fort 




ELLICOTT SQUARE BUILDING. 
One of the largest office buildings in tlie world, covering a floor space 
of 4,730,700 feet. 
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Green & Wicks, Architects. 

THE NIAGARA HOTEL. 

Erie, at the foot of Lake Erie, to 
Fort Niagara on Lake Ontario, 
the entire frontier is rich in tragic, 
historic associations, the distance 
being practically a continuous bat- 
tlefield, the scene of bloody con- 
flicts, massacres, and slaughters. 
Lord Aberdeen said his most 
delightful experience in America 
was atrip along the Niagara Fron- 
tier from Buffalo to Youngstown, 
inspecting the battlefields of Fort 



AUSTIN MILL OF 
THE GOODYEAR 

LUMBER CO. 
Head Office, Buffalo. 



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STEAMER "EASTERN STATES," SISTI K-llll' I i i • \\ | -. i i k \ - r \ | i 
Steamers of the D. & B. Line plyinj; daily botwoon Bullalo and Detroit. 




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Erie, Buffalo, Black Rock, Lundy's Lane, 
Chippawa, and Queenstown Heights. 

With this romantic environment it is 
easy to understand why Buffalo is such a 
popular convention and sight-seeing city. 





DF.NTON, COTTIER & DANIELS 
BUILDING. 

Oldest Music House in America. 
(Established 1827.) 



BUILDING OF THE BUFFALO NEWS. 

Devoted exclusively to publishing the Buffalo Evening 
and Sunday News. 



INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY 
COMPANY. 

One of the delightful features of life 
and business in Buffalo is the splendid 
urban and interurban service provided by 
the trolley lines of the International Rail- 
way Company. It is regarded as one of 
the best-equipped systems in the country, 
with 350 miles of trackage in Buffalo and 
along the Niagara Frontier. The cars are 
not only operated but are also heated and 




WORKS OF THE BUFFALO CEMENT CO., LTD. 
Cement Manufacturers and Producers of Crushed and Building Stone. 




THE JOHN K. KIEM MILLS. 
Pressed Steel Products. 




EMPIRE STATE l',.\l'Kl>^. M'.W \uKk tKNTKAl. LINES. 
Daily Between Buffalo and New York. 




THE L. & 1. J. W IHTK COMP.VNV. (Established 1837.) 
Manufacturers of Ed^'e Tools and Machine Knives. Buffalo, New Vork, and Chicago. 

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illuminated by electricity, all furnished by en 
ergy from the great cataract. The company 
operates a complete interchangeable system 
of transfers which renders every section 
of the city accessible for the payment 
of one five-cent fare. 

Originally this magnificent trolley 
system was a number of separate small 
lines. Three of them were in the city 
and others were operated through ad- 
jacent country. When all were merged 
into one great organization the resultant 
advantages were inevitable. The resi 
dence sections not only were enlarged and 
enhanced in value but were made more access- 
ible and attractive than any had anticipated. 

One of the greatest benefits, however, 
came from the opening up of industrial sites 




Green & Wicks, Architects 

THE BUFFALO SAVINGS BANK- 




BUFFALO PLANT, WASHBURN-CROSBY COMPANY. 
Manufacturers Gold Medal Flour. 



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WORKS OF THE BUFFALO FORGE COMPANY. 

Engine and Pump Builders, Fan System of Heating, Ventilating, and Drying, Mechanical Draft 
Forges, Blowers, and Fans for all purposes. 

through the perfecting of this great trolley system. Buffalo enjoys the unique dis- 
tinction of having all its industries, on every side, within ready reach of the heart of the 

city. 

Owing to Buffalo's rapid 
growth the central residential dis- 
tricts have become greatly con- 
gested, requiring the necessity of 
residing in the outlying districts. 
The provisions made for this re- 
quirement are so inviting that the 
ground is now nearly covered with 
beautiful residences and luxurious 
homes, and when one considers 
that they are free from noise, have 
good, pure air, besides the addi- 
tional attraction of a certain, 
steady increase in the valuation of 
their properties, why would they 
live elsewhere .'' 

Among the many beautiful 
outlying districts and suburbs 
of Buffalo whose growth has 
been decidedly rapid may 




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THE blUW.W MRKPKUOl' BUILDING. 
Main and Goodell streets. 




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THOMAS FLYER 



WORKS OF THE E. R. THOMAS MOTOR COMPANY. 
Manufacturers of the famous Thomas Fiver Automobile. 



be mentioned Central Park, North Park, aiid 
Kenmore. The suburban growths of New York 
and Chicago have demonstrated what these dis- 
tricts are destined to be in all rapidly growing large 
cities. This great growth makes Greater Buffalo 




PRUDENTIAL BUILDING. 



SCENE AT THE FRONT, SHOWING WATER WORKS 
AND NIAGARA RIVER. 




THE HORTICULTURAL BUILDING AT SOUTH PARK. 

which includes a splendid group of busy towns and villages 
with thickly populated intermediate sections and with such 
manufacturing and sight-seeing centers as Niagara Falls, 
an integral part of the enterprising life of the Frontier 
which rapidly is becoming one great city with manufac- 
tories extending for miles. A glance at the map of the 
Niagara Frontier will reveal at once this great growth 
and the matchless opportunities for the splendid greater 
growth that is destined to make Buffalo one of the 
foremost industrial centers, not only of the American 
continent but of the whole world. 



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74TH REGIMENT ARMORY. 



George Gary, Architect. 

THE HISTORICAL 
BUILDING. 

BUFFALO AS A CEN- 
TER OF TREMEND- 
OUS POPULATION. 

Already Buffalo is the 
center of the greatest 
circle of population that 
can be drawn on this 
continent. A map of re- 
markable interest shows 
this clearly. A night's 
ride from Buffalo and 
one is in New York or 
Boston or Philadelphia 




MARTEN PARK HIGH SCHOOL. 



center, for the steam railroads not 
only have put on more trains but 
in every instance they have short- 
ened the running time. Chicago, 
like New York, is much nearer 
Bufifalo than it used to be. The 
shortening of running time has 
meant the annihilation of space 
and the consequent lessening of 
distance. The improvement of 
rapid transit is making of all this 
country surrounding Buffalo a big 
contiguous city. 

Inevitably, therefore, Buffalo 
is a Mecca for visitors. Its trolley 



or Baltimore or Washington or 
Pittsburg or Detroit or Montreal, 
with Chicago little farther away, 
and with cities like Cleveland, 
Toronto, Rochester, and Syracuse 
only a few hours' ride. During 
the famed Pan-American Exposi- 
tion, even expert railroad men 
were astonished over the resources 
of this circle which may be drawn 
by including simply the territory 
within a day's ride of Buffalo. Of 
late this circle has been brought 
into still closer contact with its 





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system has become famed among 
tourists and with travelers in gen- 
eral. They go to and from the 
Falls just as from one end of a 
big city to another. They ride 
to Lockport, to beautiful Olcott 
Beach, or to quaint old Youngs- 
town, through the fruit and or- 
chard country or along the lakes 
or river, enjoying every mile of 
the journeys. The one great trol- 
ley system makes it all easy, simple, 
and convenient. 




GEORGE URBAN MILLING Ci'MlA.WS MILL. 
Manufacturers of Liberty Flour. 




BE.ALS & CO.MP.ANV. 
Iron, Steel, and Hardware. Stores and Warehouses, 40 to 62 Terrace. 



ONE OF BUFFALO'S 
UNIQUE ADVAN- 
TAGES. 

Buffalo also is a city 
uniqiie in regard to the 
number of its inhabit- 
ants who, in addition to 
their interests in Buffalo, 
have business activities 
in other parts of the 
country. The reason for 
this is obvious. No other 
city can compete with it 
as a strategical center 
from which a man of 
varied interests can keep 
in close touch and easy 
reach of all of them. 
When necessary, he can 
go quickly and without 
delay to the city where 




ARCHED BRIDGE, DELAWARE PARK. 




PLANT OF THE CHASE & BAKER COMPANY. 
Manufacturers of Piano Players and Perforated Music Rolls. 



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his presence is required. Thus Buffalo 
offers not only exceptional manu- 
facturing facilities but absolutely un- 
surpassed advantages as a place of 




WALBRIDGE & CO. 
392-394 Main Street and 
203-205 Pearl Street. 
Hardware. 



have interests, vast inter- 
ests, in Pennsylvania, in 
Illinois, in New England, 
in Canada, even in Colo- 
rado and in Mississippi. 
They have their frequent 
engagements in large 
cities, East and West, 
North and South, but 
their homes are in Buf- 
falo. Here they live. 
It is the ideal city for 
their residence. 





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CONVENTION HALL. 

business, residence, and commercial headquar- 
ters. In these times of keen business activity 
every' man appreciates what this means. And 
so it is that men whose homes are in Buffalo 



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WAREHOUSE OF WEED & CO. 



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Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. 

gle Receipts, 121,278,000 packages; Flour 
Manufactured, 2,105,840 barrels; Vessels 
Arrived, 3,644 — tonnage, 4,858,000; Ves- 
sels Cleared, 3,711 — tonnage, 4,862,000; 
Coal Shipments by Lake, 2,887,000 tons ; 
Internal Revenue Receipts, $1,087,852.85 ; 
Elevators, 30, with 24,740,000 bushels capac- 
ity ; Police Department, number of men, 
785 — stations, 13; Greatest Coal Pocket 
in the World — the Lackawanna, 5,000 feet 
long; Public Libraries — BufTalo Library, 
212,000 books and 19,000 pamphlets ; Gros- 
venor, 70,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets 
(reference) ; Theaters, 8 ; EUicott Square — 
largest and finest fireproof office building 
in the world, containing 400,000 square 
feet of floor space or over nine acres, with 
16 elevators; Fire Department — 579 men, 
28 engine companies, 9 truck companies, 6 
chemical companies, and 3 fireboats, water 
tower, with finest modern system of stor- 
age and signal boxes ; Stockyards — second 
largest in the world, covering 100 acres. 



A FEW FIGURES 
ABOUT BUFFALO. 

Population, 400,- 
000; Public Schools, 
71 ; Customs Receipts, 
$638,000 ; Value of 
Exports, $24,366,000; 
Postoffice Receipts, 
$1,129,600; Flour Re- 
ceipts, 6,269,000 bar- 
rels; Lumber Re- 
ceipts, 202,950,000 
feet ; Grain Receipts, 
1 00,062,000 bushels; 
State Law Library, 
17,000 volumes; Coal 
Recei pts by Rail, 
9,600,000 tons ; Ore 
and Pig Iron Receipts, 
2.331,000 tons; Shin- 




THE 

WHITE 

'building 




THE WHIIK BUILDING. 




PLANT OF WICKWIRE STEEL CO. 
Manufacturers of Pig Iron. 




MUTUAL TRANSIT COMPANY. 



Package Freight Line, operating on tfie Great Lakes with fleet of twelve large steel steamers. 
General Offices: Chamber of Commerce Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 




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WORKS OF THE CUTLER DESK COMPANY. 
Manufacturers of the Famous Cutler Desks and Office Furniture. 




STEAMER "JUNIATA." SISTER SHIP TO THE "TU i\h^l A 

The Erie & Western Transportation Co. — Anchor Line Passenger Steamers plying between 
Buffalo and Duluth, calling at intermediate points. 
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CORNER DELAWARE AVENUE AND NORTH STREET. 



largest sheep shed in the 
world — daily capacity, 
50,000 sheep, 35,000 hogs, 
15,000 cattle — annual 
business exceeds $101,- 
000,000; University of 
Buffalo — 59 years old, 
4 professional depart- 
ments, 4 liberal arts lec- 
tureships, I New York 
State cancer laboratory, 
3,000 alumni, 160 profes- 
sors and instructors, 700 
students in current year; 
Paved Streets — greater 
proportion and better 
than any other city in 
the world — 100 miles 
stone, 5 miles macadam. 




Green & Wicks, Architects. 



DELAWARE PARK BRIDGE. 




BUFFALO POTTERY. 
Manufacturers of the highest grade of Semi-porcelair> 




TiiK iu>ri-,i> Mii.i.iNi; CO. 

Shippers of Mixed Cars of Grain and Feed. 




THE BUFFALO FERTILIZER COMPANY. 
Capacity, 60,000 Tons. 







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PLANT OF LAUTZ BROS. & CO. 
Soap Works. 




PLANT OF FAKKAR & TREFTS. 
Manufacturers of Boilers, Tanks, Steam and Gas Engines, Propeller Wheels, Brass Castings, and Machine Work. 




EAST BUFFALO IRON WORKS. FARRAR & TREFTS, PROPRIETORS. 

Manufacturers of Castings of every description. Capacity, loo tons per day. 



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13K miles brick, 
327 miles asphalt, 
giving Buffalo 
more smooth pave- 
ment than Paris, 
Washington, New 
York, London, or 
any other city on 
earth ; Buffalo So- 
ciety of Natural 
Sciences — Museum 
in the Library 
Building, free to 
the public from 9 
A. M. to 5 P. M., 
daily, except Sun- 
day and Mon- 
day. 



RESIDENCE, DARWIN D. MARTIN 

36,914 geological and mineralogi- 
cal specimens, 27,014 zoological, 
botanical, etc. ; Science Library, 1 
500 volumes ; Banks — 10 of dis- 
count, 3 trust companies and 3 
savings banks; Banks of deposit, 
$50,622,166, discount, capital and 





Green & Wicks, Architects. 

RESIDENCE, SPENCER KELLOGG. 



Green & Wicks, Architects, 

RESIDENCE, GEO. V. FORMAN. 

surplus, $7,140,000; Trust Com- 
panies, capital and surplus, $2,- 
207,226 — deposits, $13,810,705; 
Savings Banks, surplus, $5,898,506 
-deposits, $63,826,635. 

The building operations in 
Buffalo average a permit every 
three hours and ten minutes. 
Those who note the details of the 
building plans comment not only 
on the great number of homes but 
on the permanencyof the buildings. 



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BUFFALO. 


TWENTIETH 


CENTURY. 










UNIVERSITY 


SATURN. 












YACHT. 




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BUFF.ALO 


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MONTGOMERY BROS. .^ CO. 
Retail Lumber, Box Factory, Planing Mill. 





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SINCLAIR, ROONEY & CO. 
Manufacturers and Importers of Millinery and Straw Goods. 
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It is interesting to observe 
that although Bufifalo now gets 
a full supply of the 140,000 
horse power of electrical en- 
ergy now generated at the Falls, 
the supply comes from only 
one power company. A sec- 
ond great power company al- 
ready has its transmission lines 





SHELTON SQUARE. 

sumer. The supply will be still 
larger and the price even more 
desirable. No one knows what 
this means so well as the manu- 
facturer who has his problem of 
power to solve. It seems well- 
nigh like Utopia for him to see an 
industry where coal is not used, 
where there are no engines and 
boilers, where all the energy that 
is used comes in from the Falls in 
never-failing supply. Smoke is 
no signal of industry here. 



PORTION OF THE NEW 
YORK STATE HOSPITAL. 

at the city limits and 
is connecting up with 
great industries along 
its right of way. Two 
more great power com- 
panies have their plans 
in course of develop- 
ment. The power from 
the one company finds 
a wellnigh instantane- 
ous market at prices 
acceptable alike to 
company and con- 




Green & Wicks. Architects. 

.I...I1.II 1 ..la GALLERY. 




PLANT OF THE QUEEN CITY DAIRY CO. 
Model Dair\ 



ATLAS RUBBER CO. 
Manufactun rs of Non-Puncture Inner Cases. 





THE COLLINS BAKING COMPANY 
Manufacturers of Bread, Rolls, and Cake. 

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Green .S: Wicks. Architects. 

D. S. MORGAN BUILDING. 



THE TIME^ BUILDING. 




Copyii^hi DftfA Pkito^rflpKK, t^ 



BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS, LEHIGH VALLEY. 
Daily between Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia 



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DKKDGING PLANT, GREAT LAKES CONSTRUCTION CO., BUFFALO AND TONAVVANDA. 



Occupied on the noted i,ooo-ton bari,'e canal, 

which is as great an undertaking as 

the building of the Panama 

Canal. 



SIGNS OF BUFFALO'S 
FUTURE. 

All these facts are but few in 
comparison with the complete de- 
tails of Buffalo's splendid devel- 
opment. Yet they serve to indi- 
cate the vast resources of the 
city, its many and magnificent in- 




KEblDENCE, TRUMAN G. AVERY. 




dustries, its constantly increasing 
array of manufacturing concerns, 
its ideal residence advantages, its 
beautiful surroundings, and at- 
tractive adjacent territory. Where 
one is pictured here, one hundred 
more might be portrayed. Out 
of the 3,000 and more industries 
in and around Buffalo, simply two 
or three score are shown here, 
and they are for the purpose of 
enabling the reader to judge 



RESIDENCE, LEWIS J. BENNETT. 
Central Park. 





BUFFALO MILL SUPPLY CO. 
General Mill Supplies and Rubber Goods. 



S. O. BARNUM & SON CO. 

Jobbers and Importers. 

Toys, Fancy Goods, Novelties, Etc. 

Established 184S. 




BUFFALO & LAKE ERIE TRACTION CO. 
The "Grape-Belt '' Route. 



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INTERIOR VIEW 
SHEA'S THEATER. 

that in a few years from now there 
will be "one continuous city from 
BuiTalo to Niagara Falls." Sub- 
urban villages have doubled in 
population and tripled and quad- 
rupled in prosperity. The city 
itself grows steadily and swiftly. 
What is best of all is that this 
growth is of the most desirable 
kind. 

Many of the large enterprises, 
with plants in various parts of the 
country, have regular meetings in 
Bufifalo of officials of these plants. 
Thus the city is recognized and 
utilized as the actual center in 
which some of the most promi- 
nent industries on the continent 
assemble their representatives and 
make new history in the world of 
commerce and business. 



of the entire extent of the 
industrial life of the city. 
It all serves to give a 
clear idea of Buffalo as it 
is to-day. No prophetic 
imagination is required 
to see now what Buffalo 
will be a decade from 
to-day. Every year sees 
new factories, new in- 
dustries, new enterprises 
coming into existence. 
You pass a bit of open 
field in a suburb to-day 
and next month you find 
a building of splendid 
proportions rising on it. 
Many a visitor remarks 




SHEA'S THEATER. 

One of the largest and most. perfectly constructed 
theaters in the world. 

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WORKS OF HEWITT RUBBER COMPANY. 
Manufacturers of Mechanical Rubber Goods for Railroads. 




BUFFALO PLANT, THE McKlNNON DASH CO. 
Manufacturers of Carriage and Automobile Dashes and Fenders. Also plants at St. Catharines, Ont., 

Troy, and Cincinnati, 0. 




NORTH STREET. 
Looking West from Delaware — Lenox Hotel in distance. 

CONCLUSION. 

The result of the attempt made to 
illustrate the industries of Buffalo in this 
book is necessarily incomplete, only a few 
of the more important enterprises being 
pictured. To give a faithful pictorial 
representation of industrial Buffalo would 
require a book too bulky for circulation 
and too ponderous for convenient hand- 
ling. Yet it is the earnest desire that 
every one should know in fullest detail 
of the myriad advantages, great attrac- 
tions, and rich resources of this city and 
its surroundings. Every inquiry will be 
regarded by the city's commercial interests 
as a favor and will receive prompt attention. 
For any further information address Secre- 
tary Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo, N. Y. 




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THE BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE BUILDING, 

Business and Shorthand School. 
Established 1854. 



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PLANT OF THE BUFFALO GAbOLINE MOTOR COMPANY. 
Manufacturers of Marine Engines. 




THE 
MATTHEWS BUILDING, 

Home of the famed 
J. N. Matthews Company, 

Owners of 

The Matthews-Northrup Works, 

The Complete Press, 

and the 

Buffalo Morning Exi)ress. 



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"BUFFALO MEANS BUSINESS' 

Per cent. 
1900 1908 Increase 

Population 35^.38? 415.53- ^7-9 

Lake Commerce, Net Reg. Tons, . . . 10,701,222 12,052.481 12.6 

Canal Commerce 888,000 1,621,527 82.6 

Savings Bank Deposits % 48,835,000 % 76,669,975 57. 

Bank and Trust Co. Deposits $51,781,167 $83,407,536 61. i 

Bank Clearings, $259,579,850 $409,086,489 57.6 

Employees M'f'g Establishments, . . . 34.^75 43-56? 27.1 

Census 1905 

Value of Products M'f'g Establishments, $105,627,182 $147-377.873 39-5 

Census 1905 

Capital M'f'g $95-739.635 $137,023,114 43-i 

Census 1905 

Production Pig Iron (Gross Tons), . . 370.000 874,983 136.5 

Production of Flour (Barrels) 521.819 2,567,232 392. 

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